Located at Five Park Miami Beach—the 48-story residential tower by Arquitectonica at the gateway to South Beach—PS Apartment is a 3,014-square-foot (280-square-metre) residence designed and delivered by Nar Design Studio as a full turnkey renovation. Conceived as a tranquil second home for a young family from Brazil, the three-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment is oriented southwest, capturing expansive sunset views across Miami Beach Marina, Biscayne Bay and the downtown Miami skyline. The central challenge was to give the high-rise residence a distinct and personal identity while preserving the openness of the plan and allowing the clients’ contemporary art collection and the surrounding landscape to remain visually dominant.
Nar Design Studio directed the project from concept through completion, integrating interior architecture, space planning, lighting design, custom millwork, construction coordination, furniture procurement, art placement and final installation within one process. The design originated from two defining forces: the horizon and the art collection. Sightlines across the living and dining areas maintain a continuous relationship with the water, while furniture and built-in elements establish intimate functional zones without dividing the open space. A second layer draws from Miami Beach’s visual heritage: rounded profiles, bronze accents, rhythmic detailing and luminous surfaces subtly reinterpret Art Deco influences through a contemporary, biomimetic language rather than through literal historical motifs.
Soft geometry provides continuity throughout the apartment, appearing in the custom living-room rug, rounded furniture, floating dining sideboard and curved lacquered wall panels. The existing structural column is treated discreetly with textured wallcovering, allowing it to recede into the overall composition. Beside it, a separate curved metal element with thin floating shelves forms part of the media-wall composition. Continuous living-room millwork connects the media unit with the concealed primary-bedroom entrance, while the dining-room installation integrates curved side panels, a floating camel-toned sideboard and indirect lighting. The primary-bedroom closet, designed by Nar Design Studio, combines glass doors, mirrored panels, integrated storage and LED illumination.
Natural stone establishes a separate material narrative. The kitchen is anchored by Patagonia quartzite, with individual slabs precisely selected and mapped to create a continuous composition across the island and backsplash. The alignment of the patterns, crystalline sections and waterfall edges allows the completed installation to read as a single monumental block of stone rather than as separately fabricated surfaces. In the powder room, a floating Barbados-marble vanity with an integrated sink creates a concentrated expression of natural material and craftsmanship. Bronze metal, bouclé, nubuck leather, pale woods and warm neutral tones complete the apartment’s tactile composition.
Furniture operates as an essential part of the spatial planning. Fully designed by Nar Design Studio, the custom living-room rug is not simply a decorative anchor: its irregular outline combines contemporary curves, a subtle Art Deco inflection and biomimetic movement. Its carefully calculated scale incorporates the otherwise residual area between the structural column and the media unit into the seating composition, maximizing the usable space and making the living room feel broader. The Westside sofa by Poliform establishes a permeable boundary between the living and dining areas and was selected specifically in a configuration with integrated metal shelving across its back. The sofa therefore faces the living room while presenting a functional, finished element to the dining area, making it integral to both environments rather than a visual barrier between them. The Eli Fly chaise by Désirée Italia and Sunday chairs by Poliform create different orientations toward conversation, art and the waterfront view. At the entrance, Haegue Yang’s Sonic Rotating Whatever Openings on Hemisphere #9 (2021) introduces the relationship between movement, reflection and art that continues throughout the residence. In the dining room, the visual weight of the Selce-T table is balanced by the transparency of the Bolle Orizzontale chandelier and the curved profiles of the Mini Papilio chairs. Cove and linear LED lighting are integrated into corridors, cabinetry and wall panels as part of a dimmable, automated system, allowing ambient, task and accent illumination to respond to different activities and times of day.
The terrace extends the living environment outdoors while introducing a more saturated expression of the waterfront setting. Against the interior’s calm, tonal palette of sand, warm grey, pale wood and bronze, turquoise and deep navy bring the colors of Biscayne Bay and Caribbean waters directly into the exterior composition. A Santorini sofa by Paola Lenti in textured turquoise, deep-navy Bitta seating by Kettal and a handcrafted Sciara table—formed from lava stone with hand-applied glass in turquoise, emerald and blue—create areas for gathering, dining and quiet reflection. Their sculptural profiles continue the interior’s language of curves while allowing the landscape to determine the color.
PS Apartment demonstrates how interior architecture can transform a standardized high-rise residence into a place-specific Miami Beach home shaped by art, family life, light and landscape. Its principal achievement is not the accumulation of luxury objects, but the precise integration of planning, custom design, material composition, furniture, lighting, technology and art into one coherent environment. FSC/PEFC-certified timber, low-VOC paints, adhesives and finishes, and an energy-efficient LED lighting system with dimming and automation support the project’s environmental performance and indoor comfort. The project was the subject of a full editorial feature in Florida Design magazine’s Summer 2026 Miami Issue and was also featured by ELLE Decoration España.
